The two maps both represented ancient lands, steeped in complex stories from long, long ago.Ī detail of the landscape from Journey Jottings Central Australia Map Journal Gazing through the glass into the cabinet looking from one map to the other – I was drawn into the notion that in each of their own ways, both were a ‘Middle Earth’ of kinds. It is a world of wonderfully unique vegetation, animal species and landscapes – not to mention, amazing people! While some were beautifully artistic and inspiring, others were heartrending as they conveyed the destruction of war some were political and clandestine, while others took you on a hop skip and a jump back to childhood with board-games with maps as their central theme, and pages from the UK Automobile Association’s personalised map itineraries (which for me brought back many happy memories of map reading in the back of the car as a real live Sat Nav directing my father to turn left and right as we headed off on summer family holidays to the hills of Snowdonia in Wales or the North Western Isles of Scotland) as well as the simply gorgeous end papers from Winnie the Pooh, with the map of 100 Aker Wood.Ĭentral Australia -The Middle Earth of Australia!Ĭentral Australia is situated, as its name implies – in the very middle of this island continent – miles from the sea in any direction. It was such an interesting, enchanting, thought provoking and confronting selection of cartographic works –

Map of mordor